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VOL. XXII.

WELLESLEY, FEBRUARY 26, 1914.

NO. 19.

COLLEGE CALENDAR.

Thursday, February 26, reading by Mr. Charles

Rann Kennedy.
Saturday, February 28, Society Program Meetings.

19 1 5 Class Social.
Sunday, March 1, Houghton Memorial Chapel.

II, A.M., preacher, Rev. Edward S. Drown

of Cambridge Episcopal Theological School.
Monday, March 2, College Hall Chapel, 7.30 P.M.,

reading by Miss Beatrice Herford of her own

monologues.
Wednesday, March 4, College Hall Chapel, 7.30

P.M., Christian Association, Miss Ethel Hub-
bard, "Facing the World."

St. Andrew's Church, 7.15 P.M., Eleanor

Boyer, ' ' Living up to Our Ideals."

THE SHAKESPEARIAN STAGE.

On Friday evening, February 20, Miss Charlotte
Porter lectured in College Hall Chapel on the
"Theater as it was in Shakespeare's time." Miss
Porter is the editor of the "First Folio" edition of
Shakespeare's works, and her conception of the
Shakespearian theater is based largely on interval
evidence from the playes themselves.

Almost all external evidence as to Shakespeare's
theater has vanished, largely through the efforts
of the opposing forces of the seventeenth century,
Puritanism and Royalty. The Puritan edicts
demolished all the existing theaters, and Charles
II gave the actors every' opportunity to introduce
the French stage and everything pertaining to it.
As a result the first editor of the nlavs changed
5hakespeare's stage directions, and inserted di-
rections that suited his own theater. It is only in
recent years that stage directors have tried to in-
vent some kind of stage by which scenes can be
rapidly shifted so that the Shakesperian plays can
be presented with no cuts in the time which they
consumed in a Shakespearian presentation — between
two and three hours.

The Shakespearian stage solved the difficulty
by presenting the whole scene for the entire play
at the first word of the play. The theater itself
was circular in shape and open to the sky. The
fore stage half filled the circle and was elevated
above the audience. On either side of the fore
stage were the lord's boxes. The rear stage pro-
jected over the fore stage as the fore stage did over
the audience, and was enclosed and so used for
all interior scenes. The rear stage was built like
a tower and had two levels which might be used
as stages when necessary, as in the scene on the
castle walls in Hamlet. Hills and trees formed
a background on either side of the rear stage. The
night scenes were cast in the shadow of the rear
stage and the effect of the lights through the trees
wras very good. As the references in Julius Caesar,
for instance, show, the setting used on the fire
stage was often very elaborate. By these stage
arrangements the play could be produced quickly
and smoothly. It is probable, indeed, that scenes
often overlapped and if this is the case many things
before obscure in the plays can mow be made clear.

ALFRED NOYES' READING.

That Alfred Noyes wras accorded a hearty wel-
come upon his second visit to Wellesley, was shown
by the fact that every seat in College Hall Chapel
was sold a month before the reading, which took
place on Monday evening, February 23rd, at seven-
thirty.

Mr. Noyes won enthusiastic applause by reread-
ing several of last year's favorites, as well as other
poems. His program included: "The Admiral's
Ghost," "Forty Singing Seamen," "The Origin of
Life," "The Barrel Organ," "The Companion of a
Mile," and "The Wine Press;" with "Peace," "The
Highwayman" and "The Three Ships" as encores.

It is a unique privilege to hear a poet interpret
his own lines. He needs no "professional rules of
elocution," for the thoughts are his, and he needs
only "read them as he came to write them." Mr.
Noyes' voice is particularly adapted to his style
of poetry. He can give the lines their dancing metre
and rythmic repetition without hint of singsong
tediousness. The most prosaic of us cannot read
"Come down to Kew" or the Maying Song; they
sing themselv s into music.

Aside from the peculiar metrical quality of the
works of Alfred Noyes, we gained a new conception
of his powers of description in the poems read.
Theie is variety, delicacy, passion in his touch.
The bold grotesqueness of "Forty Singing Seamen"
is no less suggestive than the exquisite picture of the
milkmaid among her "satin kine," or the emotional
shades of frolic and wistfulness in Will Kemp ot
"The Companion for a Mile." That poem is full
of dainty pitturesqueness. In the long war poem,
"The Wine Press," however, we first follow the
poet to the limits of his imaginative possibilities.
The pictures in that poem follow each other swiftly
but clearly. The black-coated diplomats in the
council chamber, "a hundred miles away," the
peasant's house in the Balkans, the journey to the
front, the detailed horror of battle and slaughter, —
the poet carried us from one to the other with his
startling viv^ness ot woraaiid pnrase, his sincerity
of appeal. The poem was written as an attempt to
arousr the imagination to a realization of what
militarism in this modern age stands for. As an
encore Mr. Noyes read a briefer poem on the same
great theme of war and peace.

There are few bookshelves in College unadorned
by the poetical works of Alfred Noyes. "The Barrel
Organ," "The Highwayman," "The Admiral's
Ghost," are learned and quoted upon every oc-
casion. To those who have heard the poet read,
the printed pages, with their pretty phrasing and
careful metre, have gained a swinging rhythm, a
glint of humor, a depth and virility of feeling, which
only the sympathetic voice of the poet can bring..

COMING.

Before very long there is going to be a spirited
campaign for the selling of the report of the Kansas
City Convention, which is soon to be published.
This report will contain a verbatim account of all of
the platform addiesses and of many of the sectional
meetings. It will give a far better idea of the great
force of the convention than all the efforts of the
delegation have succeeded in doing.

If the report is ordered now it can be obtained
for one dollar instead of a dollar and a half, which
will be the price later.

Don't miss your opportunity, — be ready with
your order and your dollar when your canvasser
appears.

PROFESSOR ROYCE'S LECTURE.

On Wednesday afternoon, February 18, Pro-
fessor Josiah Royce of Harvard University, lec-
tured on "Community Spirit." This he defined as
the basis of all true morality, virtue and equality, —
"that tendency that is characteristic of the highest
religions," and of Christianity in particular, as

illustrated in First Corinthians, chapter thirteen.
Both ancient and modern literature abounds in
instances of this spirit, which demands the devo-
tion of the individual for the good of the cause. In
modern times, there is Swinburne's "Erectheus,"
the tale of the legendary sacrifice of an Athenian
king's daughter to the gods for the purpose of
saving the community. Professor Royce read se-
lections from this which illustrated the attitude
of the royal family toward this sacrifice, and gave
his criticism that Swinburne had produced a
"modern version of ancient loyalty."

MR. SHARP'S LECTURE.

It was indeed a rare privilege to hear Mr. Sharp
speak on the subject of writing on Friday afternoon,
February 20. The Sophomores owe a great deal
to Miss Hughes for introducing him.

Any one who heard Mr. Sharp need never again be
at a loss for a theme subject. He showed us that
there was a wealth of literary material all about
us, if we only trained ourselves to see it. In his
comfortable fire-side manner he told us, "Just go
and bang your heads up against a few posts and
write it up — and there's a theme. Quite simple,
you see."

One often wonders how a good piece of writing
comes to be and one marvels at the almost super-
human powers the writer must possess. Mr. Sharp
made essay-writing, for instance, seem the simplest
process possible, and illustiated it by composing a
whole essay for us then and there, on the basis of
what seemed to us very bare material indeed. He
had wn iVrJlcck ^f butterflie? o.. tbr— summit A
Mt. Hood, Oregon, and on this phenomenon he
built a unified whole by a skilful combination of the
incidents of the trip, naturalist's lore and thinking.

Mr. Sharp gave prospective writers some very
helpful suggestions. He dwelt on the fact that the
forty thousand magazines now in existence created
a constant demand for material. Even though a
great deal has been written on every imaginable
topic, yet every subject will be and must be written
up again, so long as there are people who read.

A NEW PLAN.

An arrangement has been made by which Hough-
ton Memorial Chapel shall be open during the after-
noon throughout the season of Lent, which being
upon Wednesday of this week. This new plan has
taken shape out of the desire expressed by many of
the girls that there should be a quiet place some-
where on the campus where they might go with their
problems and perplexities and know that they would
be undisturbed. The season of Lent seemed a
particularly good opportunity to satisfy this desire,
representing as it does the widespread consciousness
of a need for a definite withdrawal from the hurry
of activity into the quiet of mediattion.

Inasmuch as many of us, being yet young and
uninitiated into the mysteries and power of prayer,
find it hard, because of the tendency of our thoughts
to wander, to get the most out of such times of med-
itation, there has been prepared a series of cards,
one for each day of Lent, upon each of which is
printed some prayer or prayers out of the world's
great storehouse of religious experience. These
prayers have been chosen with great care, in order
that by the variety of their thoughts, they may
lead those who use them into definite self-expression
and thence into a deeper knowledge of the possi-
bilities of prayer.

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THE ENDOWMENT FUND.

We all know that Wellesley is working for an
Endowment Fund of a million dollars. We all
know, with George Washington, that money is
power; we also know that money is a primary need
of a great and growing college, which has the multi-
plex expense account of an institution whose duty
is at the same time to enlighten, to feed, and to
house its members. Wellesley has a tremendous
task upon her hands, and finds that in order to
maintain her academic standard, she must increase
her power of expenditure for the it emcalled " Pro-
fessors."

We are working very hard (at times) for a
Student- Alumna? Building Fund. We are also
beginning to work for an Endowment Fund. Of
which are we most deeply in need as a College?
Few of us, after a moment's reflection, will dare to
answer otherwise than, "Of the Endowment Fund."

Of course we are sadly in need of a larger build-
ing to play in, our Student Government and News
offices are inadequate, we need a Student-Alumnae
building. But the fact is, we need our Faculty
more than we need an auditorium, we need great
and wise minds to guide us more than we need
elbow-room for the Student Government and
News boards. And it takes money to procure
the best of the scholarship of the land.

We make so bold, then, as to suggest that the
College turn its attention and effort to the raising
of the Endowment Fund, since this will free the
College from a great and serious handicap. We
even dare to suggest that part, if not all, of the
Student-Alumnae Building Fund be turned over to
the Endowment Fund. Of course, such a move
would require the decision of such donors as the
various Wellesley Clubs, which have contributed
so largely to the Student-Alumnas Building Fund.
If the relinquishing of this fund to the Endowment
Fund would seem to remove the prospect of a
student building to a too dim future, might not parts
of the fund, at least, — various definite amounts
given by definite people, — be withdrawn by those
people and given to swell the Endowment Fund?

Such suggestions may seem rash and extreme to
many people, but they rise from the conviction
that the crucial need of Wellesley is the power to
maintain her academic standard, and that we who
love her not only as a place to play, but as a place
to work, have the first right to free her from her
heaviest burden.

BIRDS OF A FEATHER.

A recent Free Press article complained of the
cliques in College friendships. The plaint is an
old one and a futile one, for "birds of a feather will
flock together" here as everywhere else. There is,
however, a development of the proverb in our com-
munity which strikes deep enough to cause us to
reflect. The flocks at large have an arbitrary desire
to assign the feather.

"Come!" called the Blackbirds to the Red Wing.
"You are black, you belong with us."

"Of course," assented the Magpies.

And the Red Wing, delighted at the invitation,

flew gaily away with the Blackbirds. One day they
came upon a flock of Tanagers.

"Look!" said the Tanagers to one another. "That
Blackbird is not like the rest. He has a streak of our
color about him. He might be with us."

The Red Wing heard and opened his wings to
look. The Tanagers were right. The wings were
tipped with bright scarlet.

"Let me come with you!" he called to the Tan-
agers. "I like scarlet better than black."

The Tanagers looked uncertain.

"But you are still black, too. You would look
strange flying with us."

"But perhaps, if I fly with you, the scarlet will
spread!" pleaded the Red Wing.

At these negotiations with the foreign Tanagers,
the Blackbirds grew exceedingly jealous.

"What is the matter with you?" they jeered.
"You have gone mad over that ugly color. You
would look even worse flying with them, than you do
with us."

And the Magpies (for they are everywhere) arose
with a great chattering and surrounded the Red
Wing.

"What nonsense!" they cried. "Did you not
flock with the Blackbirds in the first place? Your
feathers are black. You must stay with the Black-
birds."

"But I wont forsake the Blackbirds," argued
the Red Wing. "I am part scarlet and part black,
why can't I fly with both?"

But at that the Magpies chattered more loudly
than ever, and when they stopped, the Tanagers
had gone.

"Delightfully inconsequent young people," Dr.
Fitch called us. There were different responses to
the accusation. Some burned hotly for they thought
of responsibilities shouldered. Some smiled in
comfortable superiority, for they believe in looking
after themselves alone. Some laughed, for they have
met with the Magpies.

DO YOU WANT TO DO THIS?

Wellesley girls are fortunate enough to have
the opportunity to hear, through the Vocational
Guidance Committee, of the many avenues of
occupation open to them. But the open meetings
of that committee have not yet called, and may not
call, attention to the following possibility, which
is as yet new, but is soon to be worked out with
greater precision.

There are some college professors and many
college girls who occasionally find a year which
they are free to spend as they please. With the
former it is apt to be the Sabbatical year, with
the latter the year between graduation and the
entering of a definite occupation. Many of these

people do not know that there are numberless
mission stations all over the world which are sorely
in need of helpers who could come and stay for a
short time and give their services without any
necessity for knowing the local language. It is a
fact that many people who could never leave home
for more than a year at a time, but are anxious to
learn of the work on the mission field and to do a
little to help lift the tremendous burden that rests
on the shoulders of the workers already in the
field, could render a much-needed service by going
to mission stations and acting as helpers for a
year. There is an endless number of things which
could just as well be done by a person not speaking
the language, which now fall to the share of the
fully equipped workers who, if relieved, could find
time for more far-reaching service.

To enable people of occasional leisure to try
their hand at such service requires, of course,
technical arrangements as to the matter' of applica-
tions to be sent out. Such arrangements will be
made. Anyone volunteering to go out in this way
for a year, would pay his or her own expenses
out and back, but would receive during the year a
sufficient salary to meet expenses.

For further information, write Miss Dorothy
Mills, 193 Salem street, Boston, Mass.

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A NEW PLAN.

There are some practical difficulties in the work-
ing out of this plan, but none powerful enough to
stand in its way. The first is the question of ex-
pense in the matter of printing the cards. Of
course, the Christian Association, if sufficiently
wealthy, might meet that expense, but there is an
alternative of far higher value. Since the expense
will amount to exactly a dollar a day it would be
possible for one girl or a group of girls to be re-
sponsible for one particular day and so make that
day of especial significance for themselves. There
will be thirty-five days during Lent when College
will be in session, so that many girls may avail
themselves of this opportunity.

The second difficulty is the matter of the care of
the chapel in the hours during which it is open. It
is manifestly unfair to burden any one person with
the care of the chapel during all of the afternoons
of Lent. Therefore it has been suggested that the
girls of the College should volunteer to share th-
responsibility by serving on watches of a half hour
or an hour in length. There is no reason why these
watches should not mean to the girls who take
them real opportunities for devotion and medita-
tion, busy though they might be. Indeed, it is be-
lieved that those who volunteer this service would
find it a rich opportunity.

It is hoped that the cards will be of real service
to those who use them. Th( y will be available at the
Christian Association office as well as at the chapel,
in case there are some who will not be able always
to make use of the open chapel, but would like to use
the cards elsewhere.

Those who wish to volunteer for a share in either
the expense or the responsibility for the chapel may
consult Isadore Douglass.

The plan is a new one, but it is very simple and
full of great possibilities and is launched in the
confidence that it will be widely used and will prove
of deep helpfulness.

IN ARGUMENTATION.

Prof: "In this connection the authority of the
Dean would have much weight."

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CAMPUS NOTES.

The Department of English Literature has re-
ceived from the Bureau of Education at Washing-
ton an appeal for help regarding the collection of
American survivals of British ballads. Anyone
who knows of any place in the United States
where the old ballads are sung or recited with or
without variations, is asked to send her information
to the Department of English Literature. A cir-
cular on the subject will be found posted on the
English Literature bulletin board.

On March 2, 1914, a performance of "A Thou-
sand Years Ago," by Percy McKay e, will be given
at the Shubeit Theater in New York for the benefit
of the Wellesley Million-dollar Endowment Fund.
Will those girls who either live in New Yotk or
have friends there, notify their friends of this per-
formance so that sufficient enthusiasm may be
roused to make this performance successful.

SPRING ORGAN RECITALS.

Beginning Friday, February 27, Mr. Macdougall
will give four organ recitals in the Memorial Chapel.

The recitals are to begin at 4.30 P.M., and are
to be about forty minutes in length.

On Friday, February 20, Dr. Emma N. Scholl
gave a talk on the "Volkslied" before a Boston
association of teachers of German.

FREE PRESS.

I.
Cattish Conversation.

"My dear," purred the Angora in the mangy
ear of the yellow Stray," you should have been at
the lecture this afternoon. I climbed up the fire-
escape and heard the whole thing."

"The lecture? What lectuie?" The Stray was
apologetic.

"Why, Professor .Royce's, you poor dear! You
really owe it to your family (if you have one), to
keep up with modern movements. It was such an
uplifting lecture for the masses! It seems too bad
that we who do not need it are the only ones who
fill the front rows. Now, next Monday, Mr.
Zueblin, — meow ! Mee-ee-ow ! Ssst ! How dare
you lap milk out of my own blue saucer? Canaille!'

"I'm sorry; I'm so absent-minded when I've
had no breakfast." The Stray was doubly apolo-
getic. "And what did you say Professor Royce
lectuied about?"

" Community Spirit."

"Oh," said the Stray, impressed.

M.S.,1916.

II.
White Lies.

"No, I'm so sorry, but I am just out of stamps."

"Oh, I think your roommate is a lovely girl,
so attractive."

"Yes, I'm going to the vill. Really, I should
love to bring you up a quart of milk, a dozen
oranges, a box of hairpins, five one-cent stamps,
ad infinitum."

"Here, I am going to that quiz, and I haven't
studied a bit for it."

"No, I haven't a thing to eat, not a single box
of crackers."

"Truly, you aren't at all unpopular, everyone
likes you very much indeed."

"Yes, I made straight credit, too."

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"I can't imagine where you heard that. I think
it is positively dishonorable for a girl to repeat
anything she is told in confidence."

"No, I'm not at all busy."

A. W. P., 1916.

Ill
The Mt. Holyoke Debate.

"All aboard for Mt. Holyoke." Even if we are
not on the train, let us be represented there by
some of our own work and endeavor. Think what
this means to us, this intercollegiate debate, for
which we have been wishing so long. It is the only
intercollegiate activity we have, our only oppor-
tunity for comparing our strength with that of
other colleges. We must show what Wellesley can
do, and that needs the help of every one of us. We
were very enthusiastic at the thought of having
the debate, but have we no tangible proofs of out
enthusiasm to offer at the crucial moment?

Let the team feel that it has the loyal support
of every girl in College, not only theoretically, but
in practical, tangible form.

H. K. P., '16.

IV.
Lent in Wellesley.
Shall we not keep Lent this year in Wellesley?
Not just by giving up candy or saving money or
going to many services, though these may help
too, — but such a Lent as Jesus kept in the wilder-
ness, a Lent which meant silence, self-knowledge,
God-fellowship, life consecration, and a great
victory of higher over lower possibilities. Why
not let our chapel be our refuge from invaded

rooms, from importunate friends, from distracting
duties, from our hurried selves? Its doors are to be
open all afternoon and we may slip in to its quiet
and peace as worshippers do into the great cathe-
drals abroad, coming and going as and when we
will.

What George Herbert says will strike home to
some of us:
"By all means use sometimes to be alone

Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.

Dare to look in thy chest; for 'tis thine own;

And tumble up and down what thou find'st there.

Who cannot rest till he good fellows find,

He breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind."

M. S.

V.

The Pleasures of Undergraduate Life.

Blase is a term of reproach. To be blase about
"The pleasures of undergraduate life" is considered
a disgrace — except by the blase. Of this minority,
some are merely superior; others have faced — and
answered — certain questions about college which
none of us can afford to ignore. There is a worthy
blase-ness which is no pose, and not to recognize
this fact argues immaturity or lack of imagination.
Your "blase neighbor" may have a different stand-
ard of values from your own. Some of us find
thac our attitude toward the pleasures of under-
graduate life has changed in the course of two or
three years. Our standards alter, and what was
meat and drink to us has lost its savor.

Now there are people who do everything that is
expected of them. They have conventional con-
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if they think at all— what other people think.
They have never asked themselves, "What am I
at college for? and whatever it is, am I getting it? "

This is a plea for independent criticism of col-
lege life. It behooves us to pause and ask ourselves
"What is my standard of values?" The hardest
course Wellesley offers is the lesson of all life—
to learn to discriminate. Whatever our personal
attitude toward college life, if we live these four
years without learning this lesson, we have lived
them utterly in vain. Mark my words— in vain.
It is all a question of values— here as everywhere.
What criterion shall decide what is worth while?
Shall we ask ourselves, "What gives me greatest
happiness?" or, "What brings me most power?"
or "What best fits me to give the best I have?"
This question of criterion involves the fundamental
question, "What kind of person am I to be? That
is, for what things shall I stand?" We must de-
cide what we wish our lives to mean. That is the
big problem.

We waste our opportunities and ourselves for
lack of this unifying principle, this standard of
values. Some waste is inevitable, for we are grow-
ing—let us hope. But it is high time to ask— and
answer— the great question, "What is centrally
worth while to me?" Avoidance of the issue is
at once pitiful and ridiculous; this is a matter of
moral honesty. Unintelligent conformity to pub-
lic opinion is spiritual death. Oh, fellow-under-
graduate, will you be a "me too!" kind of person,
or will you think for yourself? M. E. C, 1914.

MRS. ROSE PASTOR STOKES' LECTURE.

A GIFT TO THE LIBRARY.

Those who went down to the village on February
21, to hear Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes speak on
"Socialism" felt amply repaid.

From her lecture we saw clearly the great gulf
between labour and capital, and we were brought to
understand how Socialism must come in to eliminate
the chasm. Socialism is a great organized, inter-
national movement, containing the same funda-
mental principles everywhere, but changing its
immediate demands according to the locality. Its
two fundamental demands are, first, that land shall
be free to all the people. We must have land if we
would live, and under present conditions we have to
pay for the privilege of living, since the landless are
in partial slavery to the landed class.

The second demand is, that the machines of
production shall be socialized. The substitution
of machines for hand tools has wrought a great
' change in industry, by which a few men, the
capitalists, have obtained control of the ma-
chines, and take for themselves all that is pro-
duced. The workers in return are paid only a small
part of the wealth, which belongs to them by right
of creation. They are prevented from receiving
a larger share of their own money, by the great
army of the unemployed which is "the bulwark of
capitalism." From this the capitalists can recruit
helpers, when the workers strike for higher wages.

Socialism would remedy these conditions by
insisting that the machines and "public utilities"
be owned by the workers. This will enable every
man to get a job and to obtain his fair share of the
wealth he creates. This remedy is no Utopian
dream, but the cnly satisfactory solution of a grave
problem.

Mrs. Stokes began at the age of eleven to work in
the factories of Cleveland. She worked twelve
years there, and three years afterward in a news-
paper office, but now belongs to the leisure class, or
to the "hoboes de-luxe," as she aptly calls them.

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Readers of German especially will be interested
in the accession to the library of nearly a hundred
volumes, given by Mr. James H. Poole of Boston.
They are from the library of his n:ece, Miss Annie
Pfaltz, Wellesley, '82, who died in the summer of
19 12; and consist largely of an interesting selection
of modern German fiction, including also a set of
Goethe and a few volumes of poetry. Besides
these, there are two books of quite different character
and of unusual interest, one being a copy of the
Eikon Basilike, long attributed to Charles I, but
now believed to have been written by John Gauden,
then vicar of Bocking in Essex, later Bishop of
Exeter. It is interesting to learn that a large num-
ber of editions of this work appeared within little
more than a year after the King's death. This
copy corresponds to number 52, as given in Al-
mack's "Bibliography of the King's Book." It has
also the double page plate of the King kneeling,
signed W. Hollar Bohem, fecit, 1649. On the fly
leaf is written in faded ink in the chirography of
a past century an apostrophe in verse to the author,
beginning:

"Friend, when I read the booke, methinks I see
Thee in ye King portrayd, the King in thee
As though he'd dropt his soul into thy penn
And lent thee't for to write it ore agen."
Doubt of the King's authorship apparently
existed from the first appearance of the book.

Just as interesting in its own way is the volume
of sermons by Albert of Padua, printed in 1480
at Ulm. The type is black letter with initials added
by hand in red ink. It is bound in the original
boards, covered with stamped leather, with clasps
of leather and metal, and bears indication of having
once been chained; perhaps in the library men-
tioned in the note in medieval Latin on the inside
of the cover.

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All communications relating to the Committee
on Non-Academic Interests should be addressed to
the present secretary, Miss C. B. Thompson, 9
Leighton Road, or Zoology Department, College

Hall.

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Sunday Evening, February 22, 1914.
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away." Woodward

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Tchaikowsky
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Choir. Vesper Hymn.
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ALL'S MUMPS THAT ENDS MUMPS.

A Comedy of Errors.
Act I.

Scene I. Field below Simpson Hill.

Enter a Forlorn Maiden, one hand on her heart,
the othei at her head.
Forlorn Maiden:

Tell me where the mumps are bred,
Or in the heart, or in the head?
Oh! I feel them in my heart. —
Surely that is where they start!
But, oh, alas! how quick they spread
From timid heart to aching head!
I'll away to Simpson Hill,
Where waits the ever-present pill.
(Exit.)

Enter a Second Maiden, carrying a suit case.
Second Maiden:

Where hath my gentle comrade fled,
Clutching at her heart and head?
A whisper dread came to her ear,
Bristled her hair with horrid fear;
That whisper to her heart said "mumps."
And now behold she leaps and jumps
Up yonder hill, and through the door.
Whence mumpish ones return no more.
Oh, cruel fate, to take her there
And leave me in the outer air!
I would that I might shaie her woes,
But I can only bring her clothes.
(She deposits suit case at door of Simpson Cot-
tage, and departs.)

Scene II- Doctor R's office. Doctor is seated at
desk, and nurse is standing near.
Enter Forlorn Maiden, clutching her jaw.
Maiden:

Good-morrow, Doctor! I do fear —
Doctor:

Not mumps! My child, come here, come here!
Maiden:

I seem to feel it round my chin, —
To ache and throb it doth begin.
Doctor, (feeling of Maiden's ears:)

Not swollen yet, — much praise to give!
But tell me, Maiden, where dost live?
Maiden:

Up at the Quad, — in Cazenove Hall —
Doctor:

Needst say no more, — that tells me all!
(To Nurse):

Here, take this girl and shut her in;
She's got the mumps, — most heinous sin!
Maiden, (clutching her ears):

But they're not swollen, you just said —
Doctor:

Cazenove's enough! away — to bed!
(Exit Nurse and Maiden.)

Act II.

Scene I: Mump Ward. Two mumpish ones are
in bed. A third bed stands empty.

(Enter, Forlorn Maiden, timidly.)

Mumpish Ones:

How now! You've come to join us too?
What is't — can you no longer chew?
Maiden:

Aye, even so, I sadly fear;
I swell not, yet am I sent here.
Mumpish Ones:
jf (£; Hurrah! Three cheers! come kiss us both,
!•' to To have a comrade we're not loth.
(Maiden climbs on their bed and kisses them.)
Maiden , (drowsily) :

A numbness now fills all my bones,
Mumps speak in no uncertain tones;
I'll hie me to that high white bed
And try to ease my heavy head.
(She climbs into bed and goes to sleep.)

Scene III: Mump Ward. 3 o'clock in the morning.
Forlorn Maiden, (switching on electric light):

Ah me! my jowls — how sore they be,

My jaws fair giit for misery.
(Rising and looking in mirror.)

Yet swell I not! I say 't'is false —

They've led me on a wild-goose waltz!

I have no mumps if I swell not,

Ah me, ah me, I had forgot;

I kissed these mumpish ones to-day —

Now, mumps or not, here must I stay!
(She turns out light and falls back with a groan.)

Scene III: Mump Ward. 7.30 A.M.

Enter Nurse. She goes up to Forlorn Maiden's
bed, and looks at her.
Nurse:

How now! what's this? thou'st swollen not?
Sure then, the mumps thou hast not got.
And hast thou kissed these mumpish ones?
Ah, woe is me! e'er many suns
Thou wilt be mumpish, e'en as they —
Unless I get thee quick away!
(She throws bathrobe around Maiden, and drags
her to the door.)
Maiden :

Farewell, farewell, my sometime friends, —
May we not reach the same sad ends.
(Exit, with nurse).

Third Maiden, Guardian Spirit of the Mumpish
ones, sings outside the window.
Guardian Spirit:

List to my tune
I am immune!
My magic rune
Ye soon shall croon, —
I am immune,
I am immune!
(Sound dies away in the distance).

Act III.

Scene I: A single room in Simpson Cottage. The
Folorn Maiden lies in a high bed.

Maiden:

Ah, woe is me, now here I lie,
Hung, as it were, twixt earth and sky;
So is my mind in two ways torn,
Ah, would that I had n'er been bom!

Have I the mumps, or have I not?
Where is the answer to be got?
Since I have kissed my mumpish friends,
Methinks my hopes have all their ends.
Ah, cruel chance, if in their bed
I met the fate from which I fled !
(Enter Doctor.)
Doctor, surprised :

What, maiden, do you in this bed?
You were to be shut up I said!
Nurse, entering hastily:

I took her from the Mumpish place
Because she had no swollen face.
Perhaps now, we can let her go,
If she doth no fatter grow.
Doctor:

Nay! She went in the mumpish place
Before she had a swollen face;
Now swollen face she's sure to get,
She cannot leave this cottage yet!
Maiden :

Had I but known that swollen ears
Should be the signal for my fears,
Never would aching jaws alone
Have brought me here! Had I but known!
Doctor:

Had I not known from whence you came, —
That Hall of ill and mumpish fame, —
I would not then so hastily
Have shut you in the Infirmary.
Ah! had I that thing never known
It would have saved you many a groan!
Maiden :

Ah well, 'tis done! My poor heart jumps!
To think that now I may have mumps!

Scene II: The same. Late afternoon.

Enter Doctor. She looks at maiden through spy-
glass.
Doctor:

What, maiden, hath no fatter grown,
And yet with jaw ache still dost moan?
Upon my life, 't'is beyond me
To tell what 't'is is that aileth thee.
(She puts down spy-glass and stands lost in
thought. Suddenly she clasps her hands.)

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I have it now! this plaj'ful mump,
It is abortive! Nay, don't jump,
"T'is not so bad as it doth sound,
But means 't'is strangled under ground;
Twill never reach the true mumps' size,
Nor e'er be seen with naked eyes.
My child, thou art a mumpish freak,
Abortive mumps are quite unique!
What's more, I think in two days' time
Thou canst return to native clime.
Maiden :

Hurray, hurray! my mumpish friends,
We have not reached the same sad ends,
For I, though latest came, shall first
From out this mumpish prison burst!

Act IV.
Scene: Lawn before Simpson Cottage, below
windows of Mump Ward.
Guardian Spirit:

List to my tune,

I am immune!

Come to me soon

And with me croon!
(Door burst open and Forlorn Maiden dashes
out.)
Maiden :

I'm out of the dumps,

I've cast off my mumps!

Abortive was I

And therefore I fly,

And leave those poor mumps

Up-stairs in the dumps !
(Heads of mumpish ones appear at windows.)
Guardian Spirit and Maiden together:

List to our tune

We're now immune, —

Both you and I;

Now can we fly

From this drear place

With steadfast face;

We need not fear

To swollen appear!

We are immune,

List to our tune!.
(Guardian Spirit and Maiden go singing down
the hill. There is a shriek of anguished envy from
the mumpish ones.)

ART EXHIBITION.

An exhibition of the work of Mr. J. Eliot Ennek-
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Museum. Mr. Enneking is one of the younger
Boston landscape painters. His father's work is
already known to Wellesley art students, and the
museum possesses one of his pictures, "October
Day."

The collection is especially interesting as it in-
cludes a large number of pochade studies, rapid
notes of some fleeting play of atmosphere and
color, as the exquisitely delicate effects of early
spring or autumn with pale sunlight filtering
through a violet haze. (The'Blue Hills, No. 6; The
Old Bridge, No. 7.) Studies of tree forms,— a grove
or a distance seen through an open interlace of
branches — is a favorite subject. Of these, "Gray
Day in the Autumn Woods," (No. 31) is the most
finished example. The sympathetic interpretation
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OPERA NOTES.

Friday evening, February 27, at 8.00 P.M.,
"Otfllo," fin Italian). Opera in four acts by
Verdi. Musical Director, Felix Weingartner.

Saturday matinee, February 28, at 2.00 P.M.,
"Monna Vanna," (in French). Opera in three acts
by Fevrier. Musical Director, Andre-Caplet.

Saturday evening, February 28, at 8.00 P.M.,
"La Traviata," (in Italian). Opera in thiee acts
and four tableaux by Verdi. Musical Director,
Arnaldo Schiavoni.

"Don Giovanni" will be the first opera of next
week, beginning at 7.30 on Monday evening. This
performance will be directed by Felix Weingartner,
and sung by a splendid cast.

"Romeo et Juliette" will be given its first per-
formance by the Boston Opera Company on Wednes-
day evening, March 4, at 7.45, with Mr. Strony con-

ducting. This opera is comparatively little known
in Boston, as it has never been given in the Boston
Opera House, and indeed has not been sung here
for nearly ten years. Gounod is known to most
people by his one work, "Faust," and many will
welcome the opportunity of acquainting themselves
with another side of the great Frenchman's genius.

On Friday evening "Die Meistersinger" will be
repeated, for the first time under the baton of Felix
Weingartner. The cast will be that of the last
performance of the Wagner work. The opportunity
to hear this opera, under the direction of one of che
most distinguished conductors of the world comes
but rarely, and a large number of people should avail
themselves of it.

At the Saturday matinee, "La Boheme" will be
repeated, serving as the vehicle to reintroduce
Nellie Melba. Mr. Moranzoni will conduct this
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ALUMNAE NOTES.

BOOK REVIEWS.

"Legends and Satires from Medi.eval Litera-
ture," edited by Martha Hale Shackford,
1896.
This is a volume of translations from Middle
English and Old French, illustrative of the minor
literature with which mediaeval England was famil-
iar, and from which Chaucer drew his inspiiation,
as well as from the classics of the continent, and the
metrical romances of France and England.

All the common literary types of Chaucer's day-
are here represented: — debate, vision, Saints' life,
pious tale, bestiary, lapidary, homily, satire, and
lay, the majority being on religious rather than
secular subjects. For we must remember how
essentially the world of the Middle Ages was ruled
by the Catholic Church, not only in its thoughts of
the world to come, but in the least daily activity
of this present life. So it is not strange that there
arose a great body of superstitions about Nature and
about God, and of legends about the miraculous
powers of Saints and other holy folk, a collection
to which we are introduced in these translations,
mostly by Miss Shackford.

In her sympathetic introduction to these tales,
she thus notes the value and the pleasure to be
derived from a study of them: "Crude and childish
as their faiths and superstitions may seem to a more
liberal age, there is something impressive in their
deep conviction of hidden truths. When we lose all
sense of mystery and of wonder and are wholly
free from any illusions, life becomes singularly
vapid, for the very key to spiiitual existence is a
sense of infinite meanings forever challenging, baf-
fling, and dominating our daily life.

'But God forbede that men shulde leve

Wei more thing thfn men han seen with ye!"

Taking the first literary- type in the collection, the
debate, we find one translation from Froissart, — a
pretty disputation between the iose and the violet,
as to which is the lovelier flower. Each is repre-
sented by her advocate who speaks at some length
and in legal phraseology. The rose is shown to be
of more honor because it is the color of the sun, ruler
of the universe, while the violet's lawyer argues that
when the clouds came down from heaven the earth
drank of their moisture and bore violets to match
them in steadfast blue, and so the friendly mocking
debate goes on.

The example of mediaeval vision is "The Purga-
tory of Saint Patrick," which interests us particu-
larly because it pictures so vividly the horrors of
hell, and the joys of the earthly paradise, suggesting
a body of legend which was embodied later and most
perfectly in Dante's "Divine Comedy." The
mediaeval writer leaves no concrete detail unsupplied,
so we shudder with St. Patrick over the "grisly"
scenes in purgatory, the men and women bound to
the earth with iron bands, or red hot nails, with
"fiery dragons and black toads sitting on them,"
and "adders eating their sides." Some are roasting
on gridirons over a fiery furnace, while others are
fastened to a huge revolving wheel, or stand in pits of
brimstone.

We rejoice too with our Irish saint as he is de-
livered from this frightful "hole," and is admitted
to the earthly paradise, bright with precious stones,
fragrant with sweet odours, filled with folk of
"gracious countenances," carolling merrily. The
author naively describes the herbs which spring up
forever green, "sweeter than licorice," and the
birds singing, "some low, some intermediate, some
high."

The saints' lives make delightful reading, too.
As I read the "Life of St. Brandon," I was reminded
of the strict Sabbath rule of old New England by
which children were allowed to read only saints'
lives, and I thought on how little persuasion a child
would need to read this story, for/ as Miss Shackford

notes, "theatmospheieof sanctity which made this
legend approved reading for the mediaeval Christian
gives a quaint irony to the accounts of fairies, de-
mons, enchanted birds, and other marvels," which
St. Brandon meets as he journeys in search of the
"Land of Behest."

In the very heart of the Pious Tale about the
miraculous resurrection of a man who had been
buried for a year, we find a satirical little gibe at
women. The story is told of this wife who faith-
fully offers alms in her husband's memory after his
death, and the comment is, "Few such women we
find now who are so kind to their husbands."

The mediaeval bestiary was a book which sought
to teach the people religious truth through the
symbolic use of animals, and as we read it to-day,
we are rather amused, since the author exaggerated
his scientific facts to secure the proper didactic re-
sults. In "The Lion" we find two characteristics of
this animal noted. "When he is born, he lies still
and stirs not from sleep until the sun has shone thrice
about him, then his father rouses him by the cry he
makes." "When he lies down to sleep he never
closes the lids of his eyes." The interpretation is
that of our Lord as the lion. "Though our Lord was
dead and buried and lay still in a stone until the
third day, His father aided Him, so that He arose
from the dead to keep us alive, and He watches ac-
cording to His will as a shepherd, and we are the
sheep."

The mediaeval lapidaries were another means of
"impressing religious symbolism on the people
through the popular interest in all the lore of precious
stones," while in some cases purely pagan super-
stitions were handed on. If we could share the
childlike faith of our ancestors in these miraculous
properties, we could make good use of their jewels.
"Geratite is of such a nature that if a man put
it under his tongue, he will divine what another
person thinks of him and can win any woman's
devotion." "And if one carries the chelidonius in a
linen cloth under his left arm he will be a good orator
and much beloved."

Perhaps the most amusing of the satires here
translated is that on the grted and gluttony of the
mediaeval monks, called "The Land of Cockaygne,"
or Cookery. In this land "flow wide rivers of oil,
of milk, of honey and wine. Water serves two
purposes only in this land — to look at, and to use
for washing." The abbey is made of "pastries,
of flesh, of fish, and of rice meats;" "the shingles
are flour cakes," and "the pinnacles are fat pud-
dings." "To that abbey fly geese roasted on the
spit and cry. 'Geese, all hot, all hot.'" "The larks
light in a man's mouth, all stewed daintily and
powdered with clove and cinnamon."

The last selection is the Lay of Sir Orfeo, given
in the original Middle English. It is the mediaeval
interpretation of the classic story of Orpheus and
Eurydia. As Miss Shackford suggests in her notes,
it has "true poetic sensitiveness in the concrete
vividness of color and fragrance in nature, in the
dim stateliness of the retinue of the king of fairy-
land, in the magic beauty of his strange abode," and
it has "true imaginative distinction in the picture
of the loyalty of love and love's power over time and
fairy spells." Marian Rider, 1913.

SCHOOL FOR "HAND-MINDED.

"I like this school because I never could have
learned anything, and I am more use in the world."
This is the way a girl pupil in the Elementary In-
dustrial School of Cleveland, Ohio, describes her
impressions of the new kind of school work, ac-
cording to a bulletin just issued by the United
States Bureau of Education.

The Elementary Industrial School was established
to give "hand-minded" boys and girls as good a
chance as the "language-minded" have always had.
Cleveland was one of the first cities in the United
States to make a distinction between the two types

of children — those who take to books and those who
do not. In Cleveland, as in most American cities,
about half the children have been leaving school
in the sixth grade. The Cleveland school authorities
saw that much of this waste was due to the attempt
to force abstract intellectual effort on boys and
girls whose interest was in doing things. The
Elementary Industrial School was meant to meet
this situation. To it boys and girls were admitted
if they were over thirteen years of agf and were two
or more years behind their grade in school.

In this school one-half of the time is devoted to
English mathematics, geography-history — the two
in close connection — and to hygiene of a thoroughly
practical character. The remaining periods are
given to manual and industrial work — including
shopwork — to domestic economy and gymnasium
practice.

The school has been successful, even in the face
of adverse conditions. The enrolment has doubled
in the past four years. Pupils who had long since
lose interest in school work of any kind, some to the
extent of being known as "dullards and incor-
rigibles," have become eager and alert, not only in
the hand subjects, but in the academic work as
well.

In speaking of the Cleveland work, Professor
W. N. Hillmann, author of the bureau's bulletin,
says: "The ordinary school was born among and
for the language-minded. Intellectual and physical
culture — not manual self-expression and economic
insight — was its aim. The industrial worker was
practically excluded from it; he had no leisure for
it, no time to engage in its play. This one-sidedness
still clings to the school, and it is hard to eradicate.
The Cleveland Elementary Industrial School may
not offer the best general solution, certainly not
the only solution of the problem; but it does offer
a solution that lies in the right direction, and one
which is at least a promising beginning."

DEATHS.

At Bagdad, Kentucky, on July 6, 1913, James
Hamilton Snook, father of Jewett Snook, 1910.

In New York, January 18, 1914, Isabel Williams
Dillingham of the Class of 1912.

In Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Febiuary 11, I9J4<
Mr. William Z. Sener, father of Ruth Sener, '09,
and Anna Sener, '11.

February 9, 1914, Mrs. Willis Gaylord Gordon of
Towanda, Pa., mother of Mary' Pratt Gordon, '02,
and of Mrs. Isabel Pratt Gordon Sixx, '99 to 'oo, and
'02 to '05.

BIRTHS.

On November 25, 1913, a daughter, Ruth Emily,
to Mrs. Helen Beard Peck, 1902.

Boin to Mrs. Luther Fowle (Helen Curtis, 1901),
a son, Curtis, in Aintab, Turkey, on January 22,

I9I4-

ENGAGEMENTS.

W. Bachman of

Lida Clark, 1907, to En
Orange, New Jersey.

Dorothy M. Hazeltine, 1910, to Arthur Yates,
McGill (Canada), 1908, Rhodes Scholai, Oxford,
1912, of Victoria, B. C. Canada.

Helen Hardenbergh, 1904-1906, to Gottfried L.
Ostgren, The Royal Technical Institute of Stock-
holm, 1900.

H. Elizabeth Seelman, '98, to Clarence Darwin
Kingsley, Colgate, '97, Agent of the Massachusetts
State Board of Education.

Alice Mary Ross, '13, to Frederic Beecher Colver,
Princeton, 1910, Columbia Law, 1913.

THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS.

MARRIAGE NOTICES.

Carpenter — Williams. On November 18, 1913,
at Mercer, Pennsylvania, Helen Bayce Williams,
1910, to Paul Hamilton Carpenter, Colorado
School of Mines, 1910. At home in Lark, Utah.

Wellesley Alumnae present were Helen F.
Reed, 1907, Mrs. Louise A. Ruddiman, 1910, who
acted as matron of honor, Enid B. Johnson, 1910,
Marguerite L. Stallknecht, 1910, and Dorothy
Viseman of Louisville.

Merriman — Griffin. At Skowhegan, Maine,
on December 21, 1913, Margaret L. Griffin, 1912,
to Frank E. Merriman. At home at 553 Mifflin
Avenue, Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania.

recent remarkable journey across China, and the
fascinating account of it in her published book, "A
Wayfarer in China."

NEWS NOTES.

CHANGE OF ADDRESS.

Dorothy M. Hazeltine, 1910, to 1337 Grant
Street, Victoria, B. C. Canada.

CAMPUS NOTES.

Professor Mary Whiton Calkins spoke on the
"Aims of the Academic College" at a recent con-
ference held at the Women's Educational and
Industrial Union under the auspices of the Ap-
pointment Bureau.

In January the members of the Boston Wellesley
College Club were invited to meet the new members
of the College Faculty at the home of Professor
Scudder in Wellesley village. At this meeting Miss
Wood of the Biblical History Department, Miss
Brown of the History Department, Miss Hughes of
the English Department, and Miss Avery of the
Art Department spoke briefly.

Professor Elizabeth Kendall has been elected a
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society as a
worthy recognition of the services rendered by her

'84 — Annie J. Cannon curator of astronomical
photographs at Harvard College Observatory; spoke
on "Experiences in Foreign Observatories" at the
last legular meeting of the Boston branch of the
Association of Collegiate Alumnse.

'89 — May Banta is spending a month in Bermuda
at Harbour View, Paget-East.

'92 — Mary Alice Emerson, Ph.D., of Boston
University, spoke at a recent meeting of the Revere
Woman's Club on "Modern Problems as treaLed
in Present Day Literature."

'95 — Mrs. AHce Campbell Wilson gave an ac-
count of a visit to Ellis Island, the immigrant
sLation in New York, before the Nahant Woman's
Club at Nahant, Massachusetts.

'95 — Mary Chase Lockwood, at her house the
Harbour View, at Paget-East, Bermuda, gave in
January a Wellesley tea. Among those present were
Ethel Sperry Makepeace, 1900, Theodora Mc
Cutcheon, 1903, Ethel Burnham Wells, '96-*98
and Bertha March, '95.

'96-'98 — Mrs. Ethel Burnham Wells, formerly of
1900, sailed for Bermuda in January. She expects
to remain until the last of February.

'96 — On Wednesday, January 21, the members of
the Wellesley Hills Women's Club gave an indoor
pageant, the lines of which were by Mrs. Isabella
Fiske Conant.

'98 — Mrs. Sara Emeiy Gilson has recently been
elected second vice-president of the Massachusetts
State Federation of Woman's Clubs. Mrs. Gilson's

husband has just received a call to the Congrega-
tional Church at Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts,
and she is now President of the Wellesley Hills
Woman's Club.

1901 — Caroline M. Donovan Is instructor in
English at the T|chnical High School, Newton,
Massachusetts.

1902-1905 and 1907-1909 — Mitsu Obada and
Matsu Okonogi have entire charge of the English
course in the Girls' High Normal School at Tokio.

1904 — Gertrude M. Ware for two years a worker
in the Citro-Chemical Works at Maywood, New
Jersey, and assistant in Chemistry at the college,
has been appointed assistant in chemistry at Bryn
Mawr College. Miss Ware has also taught in a
High School in Massachusetts.

1907 — The Mary E. Horton Fellowship for 1913-
1914 has been awarded to Jane Isabel Newell. Miss
Newell received her master's degree from Wiscon-
sin University in 1908, and expects to take her
Doctor's Degree from that same University where
she is now studying.

1907 — Caroline N. Shaw has been for the past
two years the teacher of Domestic Science at
Denison House, the home of the Boston College
Settlement.

1907 — Abby L. Wrigley is doing graduate work
in Latin and Greek at the University of Michigan.

1909 — Frances Halley, who gave up her position as
a teacher in Atlanta, Georgia, a year ago is settled in
Susanne, Switzerland, where she expects to teach
English. She is located at the Hotel Eden.

1909 — At the wedding of Katherine Norcross,
daughter of Helen Walmsley Norcross, '8o, Mar-
garet Norcross, 1907-1909, was maid of honor and
Emma J. Meikel was one of the bridesmaids.

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